178 THE AMERICAN MOOSE 



sula in 1899. This head is now in the Field 

 Museum of Natural History in Chicago. The 

 spread is 78^ inches, and it has 34 points. The 

 maximum breadth of palmation is 18 inches, and 

 the palmation in places is inches in thickness. 

 With the dry skull the antlers weigh about 92 

 pounds.^ It is said this head was brought into 

 Kenai by an Indian, who claimed to have found the 

 moose drowned in Kenai River. At that time the 

 spread measured 81 inches.^ The curator of 

 zoology at the museum states that the Indian 

 was arrested by a game warden, who perhaps 

 distrusted the story of the accidental death of 

 the moose, and that the head was confiscated. It 

 found its way into the hands of a taxidermist in 

 Chicago, who sold it to the museum. 



A finer pair of moose antlers, but with less 

 spread, was shot by A. S. Reed, an Englishman, on 

 the Kenai Peninsula in 1900. This head is now 

 in the Reed-McMillan collection, in the possession 

 of the New York Zoological Society. Its superior- 

 ity lies in its broader palmation and greater 

 number of points. When killed, Mr. Reed's 



8 See Life Histories of Northern Animals, by Ernest Thompson Seton 

 (N. Y., 1909), vol. i., pp. 158, 161. Seventh Report No 7. State Forest, 

 Fish, and Game Commission, 1901, p. 233. 



'^Big-Game Shooting in Alaska, by Cap . Charles R. E. Radclyfie 

 (London, 1904), p. 60. 



